posture vs sham

posture

verb
  • To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose. 

  • to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired 

  • to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction 

noun
  • The way a person holds and positions their body. 

  • The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation. 

  • A situation or condition. 

  • One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person. 

sham

verb
  • To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign. 

  • To obtrude by fraud or imposition. 

  • To deceive, cheat, lie. 

adj
  • mock 

  • Intended to deceive; false. 

  • counterfeit; unreal 

  • See also Thesaurus:fake 

noun
  • A decorative cover for a pillow. 

  • A false front, or removable ornamental covering. 

  • Trickery, hoaxing. 

  • A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine. 

  • Champagne. 

How often have the words posture and sham occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )